This package provides a variety of functions for the best known and most innovative approaches to nonparametric boundary estimation. The selected methods are concerned with empirical, smoothed, unrestricted as well as constrained fits under both separate and multiple shape constraints. They cover robust approaches to outliers as well as data envelopment techniques based on piecewise polynomials, splines, local linear fitting, extreme values and kernel smoothing. The package also seamlessly allows for Monte Carlo comparisons among these different estimation methods. Its use is illustrated via a number of empirical applications and simulated examples.

This package implements univariate continuous probability distributions and associated model diagnostics based on the Lindley, Logistic, Half-Cauchy, Half-Logistic, and Poisson families. Provides functions for probability density, cumulative distribution, quantile, and hazard evaluation, random variate generation, and diagnostic procedures including Q-Q and P-P plots, goodness-of-fit tests, and model selection criteria.

This package provides a collection of tools that allow users to perform critical steps in the process of assessing ecological niche evolution over phylogenies, with uncertainty incorporated explicitly in reconstructions. The method proposed here for ancestral reconstruction of ecological niches characterizes species niches using a bin-based approach that incorporates uncertainty in estimations. Compared to other existing methods, the approaches presented here reduce risk of overestimation of amounts and rates of ecological niche evolution. The main analyses include: initial exploration of environmental data in occurrence records and accessible areas, preparation of data for phylogenetic analyses, executing comparative phylogenetic analyses of ecological niches, and plotting for interpretations. Details on the theoretical background and methods used can be found in: Owens et al. (2020) <doi:10.1002/ece3.6359>, Peterson et al. (1999) <doi:10.1126/science.285.5431.1265>, Soberón and Peterson (2005) <doi:10.17161/bi.v2i0.4>, Peterson (2011) <doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02456.x>, Barve et al. (2011) <doi:10.1111/ecog.02671>, Machado-Stredel et al. (2021) <doi:10.21425/F5FBG48814>, Owens et al. (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.04.011>, Saupe et al. (2018) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx084>, and Cobos et al. (2021) <doi:10.1111/jav.02868>.

Body Shape and related measurements from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1999-2004). See http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm for details.

This package provides a framework for systematic exploration of association rules (Agrawal et al., 1994, <https://www.vldb.org/conf/1994/P487.PDF>), contrast patterns (Chen, 2022, <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2209.13556>), emerging patterns (Dong et al., 1999, <doi:10.1145/312129.312191>), subgroup discovery (Atzmueller, 2015, <doi:10.1002/widm.1144>), and conditional correlations (Hájek, 1978, <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-66943-9>). User-defined functions may also be supplied to guide custom pattern searches. Supports both crisp (Boolean) and fuzzy data. Generates candidate conditions expressed as elementary conjunctions, evaluates them on a dataset, and inspects the induced sub-data for statistical, logical, or structural properties such as associations, correlations, or contrasts. Includes methods for visualization of logical structures and supports interactive exploration through integrated Shiny applications.

This package provides functions to compute the non-negative garrote estimator as proposed by Breiman (1995) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1269730> with the penalized initial estimators extension as proposed by Yuan and Lin (2007) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/4623260>.

This package provides automated methods for generating initial parameter estimates in population pharmacokinetic modeling. The pipeline integrates adaptive single-point methods, naive pooled graphic approaches, noncompartmental analysis methods, and parameter sweeping across pharmacokinetic models. It estimates residual unexplained variability using either data-driven or fixed-fraction approaches and assigns pragmatic initial values for inter-individual variability. These strategies are designed to improve model robustness and convergence in nlmixr2 workflows. For more details see Huang Z, Fidler M, Lan M, Cheng IL, Kloprogge F, Standing JF (2025) <doi:10.1007/s10928-025-10000-z>.

We proposed a package for the classification task which uses Negative Binomial distribution within Linear Discriminant Analysis (NBLDA). It is an extension of the PoiClaClu package to Negative Binomial distribution. The classification algorithms are based on the papers Dong et al. (2016, ISSN: 1471-2105) and Witten, DM (2011, ISSN: 1932-6157) for NBLDA and PLDA, respectively. Although PLDA is a sparse algorithm and can be used for variable selection, the algorithm proposed by Dong et al. is not sparse. Therefore, it uses all variables in the classifier. Here, we extend Dong et al.'s algorithm to the sparse case by shrinking overdispersion towards 0 (Yu et al., 2013, ISSN: 1367-4803) and offset parameter towards 1 (as proposed by Witten DM, 2011). We support only the classification task with this version.

Dirichlet process mixture of multivariate normal, skew normal or skew t-distributions modeling oriented towards flow-cytometry data preprocessing applications. Method is detailed in: Hejblum, Alkhassimn, Gottardo, Caron & Thiebaut (2019) <doi: 10.1214/18-AOAS1209>.

Datasets for testing nonlinear regression routines.

This package provides a collection of data structures that represent volumetric brain imaging data. The focus is on basic data handling for 3D and 4D neuroimaging data. In addition, there are function to read and write NIFTI files and limited support for reading AFNI files.

This package provides a program for Bayesian analysis of univariate normal mixtures with an unknown number of components, following the approach of Richardson and Green (1997) <doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00095>. This makes use of reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that are capable of jumping between the parameter sub-spaces corresponding to different numbers of components in the mixture. A sample from the full joint distribution of all unknown variables is thereby generated, and this can be used as a basis for a thorough presentation of many aspects of the posterior distribution.

This package provides functions to calculate estimates of intrinsic and extrinsic noise from the two-reporter single-cell experiment, as in Elowitz, M. B., A. J. Levine, E. D. Siggia, and P. S. Swain (2002) Stochastic gene expression in a single cell. Science, 297, 1183-1186. Functions implement multiple estimators developed for unbiasedness or min Mean Squared Error (MSE) in Fu, A. Q. and Pachter, L. (2016). Estimating intrinsic and extrinsic noise from single-cell gene expression measurements. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 15(6), 447-471.

Near-far matching is a study design technique for preprocessing observational data to mimic a pair-randomized trial. Individuals are matched to be near on measured confounders and far on levels of an instrumental variable. Methods outlined in further detail in Rigdon, Baiocchi, and Basu (2018) <doi:10.18637/jss.v086.c05>.

Incorporating node-level covariates for community detection has gained increasing attention these years. This package provides the function for implementing the novel community detection algorithm known as Network-Adjusted Covariates for Community Detection (NAC), which is designed to detect latent community structure in graphs with node-level information, i.e., covariates. This algorithm can handle models such as the degree-corrected stochastic block model (DCSBM) with covariates. NAC specifically addresses the discrepancy between the community structure inferred from the adjacency information and the community structure inferred from the covariates information. For more detailed information, please refer to the reference paper: Yaofang Hu and Wanjie Wang (2023) <arXiv:2306.15616>. In addition to NAC, this package includes several other existing community detection algorithms that are compared to NAC in the reference paper. These algorithms are Spectral Clustering On Ratios-of Eigenvectors (SCORE), network-based regularized spectral clustering (Net-based), covariate-based spectral clustering (Cov-based), covariate-assisted spectral clustering (CAclustering) and semidefinite programming (SDP).

Estimates the relative transmission probabilities between cases in an infectious disease outbreak or cluster using naive Bayes. Included are various functions to use these probabilities to estimate transmission parameters such as the generation/serial interval and reproductive number as well as finding the contribution of covariates to the probabilities and visualizing results. The ideal use is for an infectious disease dataset with metadata on the majority of cases but more informative data such as contact tracing or pathogen whole genome sequencing on only a subset of cases. For a detailed description of the methods see Leavitt et al. (2020) <doi:10.1093/ije/dyaa031>.

Fast and Accurate Trisomy Prediction in Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing.

Estimation of structural equation models with nonlinear effects and underlying nonnormal distributions.

This package provides residuals and overdispersion metrics to assess the fit of N-mixture models obtained using the package unmarked'. Details on the methods are given in Knape et al. (2017) <doi:10.1101/194340>.

Classification, regression, and clustering with k nearest neighbors algorithm. Implements several distance and similarity measures, covering continuous and logical features. Outputs ranked neighbors. Most features of this package are directly based on the PMML specification for KNN.

This package implements the non-asymptotically valid and asymptotically exact confidence intervals in two cases: estimation of the mean, and estimation of (a linear combination of) the coefficients in a linear regression model, following (Derumigny, Girard and Guyonvarch, 2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.16776>.

This package performs analysis of one-way multivariate data, for small samples using Nonparametric techniques. Using approximations for ANOVA Type, Wilks Lambda, Lawley Hotelling, and Bartlett Nanda Pillai Test statics, the package compares the multivariate distributions for a single explanatory variable. The comparison is also performed using a permutation test for each of the four test statistics. The package also performs an all-subsets algorithm regarding variables and regarding factor levels.

This package provides a Non-Metric Space Library ('NMSLIB <https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib>) wrapper, which according to the authors "is an efficient cross-platform similarity search library and a toolkit for evaluation of similarity search methods. The goal of the NMSLIB <https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib> Library is to create an effective and comprehensive toolkit for searching in generic non-metric spaces. Being comprehensive is important, because no single method is likely to be sufficient in all cases. Also note that exact solutions are hardly efficient in high dimensions and/or non-metric spaces. Hence, the main focus is on approximate methods". The wrapper also includes Approximate Kernel k-Nearest-Neighbor functions based on the NMSLIB <https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib> Python Library.

Nested Partially Balanced Bipartite Block (NPBBB) designs involve two levels of blocking: (i) The block design (ignoring sub-block classification) serves as a partially balanced bipartite block (PBBB) design, and (ii) The sub-block design (ignoring block classification) also serves as a PBBB design. More details on constructions of the PBBB designs and their characterization properties are available in Vinayaka et al.(2023) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2023.2251623>. This package calculates A-efficiency values for both block and sub-block structures, along with all parameters of a given NPBBB design.